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Definition: COMMISSURE |
COMMISSURENoun1. The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc. 2. A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma. 3. The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc. 4. A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Junction | Commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture,commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link; miter mortise. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: COMMISSURE |
| English words defined with "COMMISSURE": Commissural ♦ Medicommissure ♦ Praecommissure ♦ Vinculum. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COMMISSURE": arcuate commissure ♦ commissura inferior, commissura inferior Guddeni ♦ Preoptic Area ♦ Septal Nuclei. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "COMMISSURE": Praecommissure. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Nodular leukoplakia in left commissure. (references) | |
Erythroleukoplakia in left commissure and buccal mucosa. (references) | ||
Examine first the right then the left buccal mucosa extending from the labial commissure and back to the anterior tonsillar pillar. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COMMISSURE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COMMISSURE" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "COMMISSURE": arcuate commissure ♦ posterior commissure ♦ posterior commissure of the cerebrum. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anterior commissure | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COMMISSURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | commissura (commissural, joining), kommissur (joining). (various references) | |
Dutch | commissuur (joining), commissura (joining), verbinding (combination, connection). (various references) | |
French | commissure. (various references) | |
German | Commissura (joining), Kommissur (joining). (various references) | |
Greek | σύνδεσμος (conjunction, ligament), συνένωση (coalescence, junction, union). (various references) | |
Italian | commissura (joining), commessura (joining). (various references) | |
Manx | olt (article, clause, connection, contribution, joint, limb, organ, par, section), junt (joint, seam), greim (bit, bite, catch, clutch, gobbet, grab, grasp, grip, handhold, hold, monopolize, morsel, piece, snap, snatch, tack, tack needlework). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ommissurecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | comissura (joining). (various references) | |
Spanish | comisura (joining). (various references) | |
Turkish | ek yeri (join, joint, juncture, scarf, splice, suture), birleşme noktası (join, vanishing point). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COMMISSURE": commissures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "COMMISSURE" (pronounced 'Com*mis"sure'): Acupressure, Clausure, Closure, Cocksure, Composure, Compressure, Contrafissure, foreclosure, Frisure, inclosure, Miscensure, Morsure, Oppressure, Overpressure, Poisure, Rasure, Reposure, scissure, Self-exposure, Supposure, tonsure. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-m-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: coremium, crummies, scummers, scummier. | |
-3 letters: ceriums, cesiums, commies, cosmism, courses, crissum, cruises, crummie, cummers, immures, isomers, memoirs, miscues, misuser, momsers, momuses, mossier, mousers, mousier, murices, mussier, osmiums, rummies, scummer, serious, simmers, sources, sucrose, summers, surmise. | |
-4 letters: cerium, cerous, cesium, comers, commie, corium, corses, cosier, cosies, course, crimes, crises, crosse, crouse, cruise, cruses, cuisse. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-m-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: commissures, consumerism. | |
+2 letters: consumerisms. | |
+5 letters: commensurations. | |
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